Continuous Integration Contracts

Continuous Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Continuous Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 129 95
Rank change year-on-year +12 -34 -18
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 818 1,122 2,408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 2.00% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.23% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 808 1,574
10th Percentile £360 £438 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 28 18
10th Percentile £60.25 £52.07 £54.63
25th Percentile £61.25 £63.38 £58.91
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £70.38 £69.22
90th Percentile £65.70 £75.00 £75.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +68.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Integration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Integration within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +12 722 £550 -8.33% 327
London +9 406 £588 -2.08% 117
UK excluding London +18 352 £550 -4.35% 232
Work from Home -20 233 £548 -5.19% 184
North of England +15 81 £488 -18.75% 52
South East -5 80 £559 +6.43% 56
East of England +24 61 £485 +36.62% 24
Yorkshire +38 49 £513 -10.09% 9
South West +4 42 £700 +12.00% 32
Scotland +37 38 £503 -6.94% 20
Midlands +3 35 £359 -33.52% 40
West Midlands -7 29 £365 -32.41% 38
North West -6 26 £488 -18.75% 36
Wales +3 15 £545 -7.00% 7
East Midlands +13 6 £356 -41.28% 2
North East +9 6 £488 -40.84% 7

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 73 (8.92%) Confluence
2 37 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.96%) Apache
4 13 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.22%) CMS
5 10 (1.22%) JBoss
5 10 (1.22%) SAS
6 7 (0.86%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.73%) nginx
8 5 (0.61%) IIS
8 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.49%) Appian
9 4 (0.49%) Luigi
10 3 (0.37%) CICS
10 3 (0.37%) Drupal
10 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.37%) Windchill
3 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.24%) Mingle
3 2 (0.24%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.47%) ION MarketView
2 9 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.37%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.37%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 1 (0.12%) Magento
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) RMDS
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 211 (25.79%) Azure
2 200 (24.45%) AWS
3 87 (10.64%) GCP
4 84 (10.27%) GitHub
5 64 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (5.01%) Serverless
7 33 (4.03%) OpenShift
8 29 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (3.30%) PaaS
10 25 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.81%) IaaS
12 21 (2.57%) Apigee
13 20 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (2.20%) Amazon S3
14 18 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
15 17 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
16 16 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.77%) TCP/IP
2 35 (4.28%) RS-485
3 34 (4.16%) Modbus
3 34 (4.16%) RS-422
4 31 (3.79%) Firewall
5 30 (3.67%) DNS
6 26 (3.18%) HTTP
7 17 (2.08%) VPN
8 14 (1.71%) SSL
9 13 (1.59%) Kerberos
10 11 (1.34%) Ethernet
11 10 (1.22%) DHCP
12 9 (1.10%) SSH
13 7 (0.86%) Internet
14 6 (0.73%) VLAN
15 5 (0.61%) NAS
15 5 (0.61%) SAN
16 3 (0.37%) BIG-IP
16 3 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 3 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.82%) NoSQL
1 64 (7.82%) Relational Database
2 53 (6.48%) MySQL
3 45 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 32 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (3.06%) Data Lake
5 25 (3.06%) KDB
5 25 (3.06%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 22 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (2.57%) Big Data
9 19 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 11 (1.34%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.34%) Redis
13 10 (1.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 240 (29.34%) Jenkins
2 207 (25.31%) Git
3 141 (17.24%) JIRA
4 94 (11.49%) GitLab
5 79 (9.66%) Cucumber
6 77 (9.41%) Selenium
7 74 (9.05%) Postman
8 52 (6.36%) Bitbucket
9 50 (6.11%) TeamCity
10 41 (5.01%) Cypress.io
11 39 (4.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 39 (4.77%) JUnit
12 38 (4.65%) SonarQube
13 36 (4.40%) REST Assured
14 29 (3.55%) Visual Studio
15 26 (3.18%) Appium
16 25 (3.06%) JMeter
16 25 (3.06%) TestRail
17 22 (2.69%) WebDriver
18 21 (2.57%) Gradle
General
1 265 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 162 (19.80%) Finance
3 134 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.80%) Banking
5 39 (4.77%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.65%) Electronics
7 35 (4.28%) Front Office
8 29 (3.55%) Back Office
9 23 (2.81%) Retail
10 22 (2.69%) Law
11 21 (2.57%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.32%) Aerospace
13 17 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.59%) Police
16 12 (1.47%) Military
17 7 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
17 7 (0.86%) Retail Banking
18 5 (0.61%) Games
18 5 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 280 (34.23%) Developer
2 114 (13.94%) Senior
3 80 (9.78%) Software Engineer
4 68 (8.31%) Java Developer
5 61 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 50 (6.11%) Analyst
7 49 (5.99%) Senior Developer
8 46 (5.62%) Test Analyst
9 45 (5.50%) Lead
10 42 (5.13%) Architect
11 39 (4.77%) Data Engineer
12 37 (4.52%) C++ Software Engineer
13 34 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
14 29 (3.55%) C# Developer
15 27 (3.30%) Tester
16 26 (3.18%) Java Engineer
17 24 (2.93%) Python Developer
18 22 (2.69%) React Developer
19 21 (2.57%) Full Stack Developer
20 19 (2.32%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (12.47%) .NET
2 101 (12.35%) REST
3 72 (8.80%) RESTful
4 71 (8.68%) Web Services
5 64 (7.82%) Node.js
6 61 (7.46%) Spring
7 56 (6.85%) Kafka
7 56 (6.85%) React
8 51 (6.23%) JSON
9 45 (5.50%) .NET Core
10 44 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
10 44 (5.38%) XML
11 38 (4.65%) Spring Boot
12 36 (4.40%) CSS
13 32 (3.91%) Java EE
13 32 (3.91%) SOAP
14 31 (3.79%) AngularJS
15 30 (3.67%) HTML
16 28 (3.42%) .NET Framework
16 28 (3.42%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.50%) Product Ownership
2 40 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (4.52%) Mobile App
4 34 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.55%) Data Structures
6 27 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 22 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 20 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 18 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 17 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.96%) Derivative
11 16 (1.96%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.71%) Fixed Income
12 14 (1.71%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.47%) Legacy Code
15 11 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.10%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 155 (18.95%) Linux
2 70 (8.56%) Windows
3 44 (5.38%) Unix
4 31 (3.79%) Android
5 17 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.47%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.10%) Solaris
8 8 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.61%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.49%) AIX
10 4 (0.49%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.49%) zOS
11 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.24%) VMS
13 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (59.78%) Agile
2 428 (52.32%) CI/CD
3 328 (40.10%) DevOps
4 288 (35.21%) Test Automation
5 203 (24.82%) Software Engineering
6 194 (23.72%) TDD
7 174 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (18.46%) Continuous Deployment
9 145 (17.73%) Continuous Delivery
10 144 (17.60%) Scrum
11 126 (15.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 115 (14.06%) Configuration Management
13 107 (13.08%) Software Testing
13 107 (13.08%) Unit Testing
14 103 (12.59%) Containerisation
14 103 (12.59%) Microservices
15 86 (10.51%) Analytics
16 82 (10.02%) OO
17 80 (9.78%) Pair Programming
18 79 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 225 (27.51%) Python
2 173 (21.15%) Java
3 170 (20.78%) SQL
4 154 (18.83%) C#
5 109 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 74 (9.05%) C++
7 71 (8.68%) PowerShell
8 59 (7.21%) Bash
8 59 (7.21%) TypeScript
9 51 (6.23%) C
10 44 (5.38%) Kotlin
11 43 (5.26%) Scala
12 37 (4.52%) Go
13 26 (3.18%) Ruby
14 25 (3.06%) Perl
15 19 (2.32%) PHP
15 19 (2.32%) PL/SQL
15 19 (2.32%) Shell Script
16 16 (1.96%) Groovy
17 10 (1.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 142 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.92%) Degree
4 47 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.30%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.30%) ISTQB
6 23 (2.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.49%) CISSP
9 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.37%) PMP
9 3 (0.37%) SANS
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.24%) OCP
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.12%) CCNP
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.12%) ISEB
11 1 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.84%) QA
2 9 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.61%) GDPR
4 5 (0.61%) MISRA
4 5 (0.61%) MISRA C
4 5 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.37%) NCSC
5 3 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.12%) GxP
6 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.12%) MiFID
6 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (20.29%) Docker
2 36 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.49%) Firmware
5 4 (0.49%) VirtualBox
5 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.49%) zsh
6 3 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.37%) vCloud
6 3 (0.37%) vSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.12%) GridGain
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 156 (19.07%) Kubernetes
2 150 (18.34%) Ansible
3 146 (17.85%) Terraform
4 57 (6.97%) Grafana
5 46 (5.62%) Prometheus
6 38 (4.65%) Progress Chef
7 36 (4.40%) Puppet
8 24 (2.93%) Docker Swarm
9 22 (2.69%) PowerCLI
10 21 (2.57%) Kibana
11 14 (1.71%) Podman
12 13 (1.59%) logstash
13 9 (1.10%) Packer
13 9 (1.10%) Tivoli
14 8 (0.98%) Graylog
15 6 (0.73%) HP Fortify
15 6 (0.73%) Nessus
15 6 (0.73%) WebInspect
15 6 (0.73%) Zipkin
16 5 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 113 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.56%) Oracle
3 41 (5.01%) Google
4 35 (4.28%) Splunk
5 33 (4.03%) HP
6 29 (3.55%) Atlassian
7 28 (3.42%) Dell
8 25 (3.06%) IBM
9 23 (2.81%) Databricks
9 23 (2.81%) ION Trading
10 20 (2.44%) EMC
11 19 (2.32%) Salesforce
11 19 (2.32%) VMware
12 18 (2.20%) Denodo
12 18 (2.20%) Talend
13 14 (1.71%) SAP
14 12 (1.47%) ServiceNow
14 12 (1.47%) TIBCO
15 10 (1.22%) AppDynamics
15 10 (1.22%) Red Hat